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[Greenbelt, Md.: woman weighing produce in grocery store] – Vintage Wall Art

[Greenbelt, Md.: woman weighing produce in grocery store], 1946 July. — historic photograph
[Greenbelt, Md.: woman weighing produce in grocery store], 1946 July.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures [Greenbelt, Md.: woman weighing produce in grocery store] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Greenbelt, Maryland, was one of three "greenbelt towns" the federal government began building in the mid-1930s as planned communities meant to combine housing, shops, and open land. This July 1946 view shows a woman weighing produce in one of the town's grocery stores, a small everyday scene from a community designed around cooperative living. The photograph was made for the Federal Public Housing Authority, and its caption card is noted as unverified, so the photographer's name, Gretchan Van Tassel, is best read as the record's attribution rather than a confirmed fact.

Created / published1946 July.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint by Gretchan Van Tassel for the (Federal) Public Housing authority. This record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,167 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-172286

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